The dark snows were from another world. They were stronger and faster than any other knight in Alba Terra. Many said they were the mightiest dark-skinned warriors the world had ever seen. Most of them didn't even wear armor.
They were descendants of the 'traitor's blood', those dark-skin that betrayed the Indigenous Empire to join the light-skin invaders.
The traitors who survived the colonizing wars were marked by an 'oath', which were magical seals that were transmitted by blood to their offspring, and that forced them to obey the orders of a feudal lord, in this case to Soto house.
Delilah and I went to the Kristala training ground, where the body of Lord Soto's second wife had once hung.
